san francisco community partners. jen, it has been an honor to work with you. congratulations and thank you for all that you do for san francisco unified school district, our students, and our families. [applause] >> hi, everyone, and thank you. it's just a great honor to be here. thank you. i'd like to thank the board and dr. matthews for this special recognition. of course i wouldn't be here today if i didn't work with such an amazing team of educators at access sfusd the arc. i'm lucky to work with just an amazing team of educators, heidi, alongside me who i know nominated me for this award. i wouldn't be here without you. but teaching in san francisco is such a joy, and i love working with my students out in the community. i work at the most fun and most amazing school, and seeing them learn and grow and face new challenges and achieve their goals and learn from their mistakes and discover all the things that san francisco has to offer is such a joy, and i look forward to continuing in education here in san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> president cook: again, congratulations to our rave award recipients. number six, a

our purpose is to provide information to the staff in san francisco unified school district to serve the needs of our english language learner students. i'd like to take some time to thank kristina wong for her support and guidance throughout this process. the translation interpretation unit because the work that we do is not possible without them, the multilingual departments for continuing their work to roll out the wonders, which is the new curriculum that serves the complex needs of our english learner students. congratulations b.c.c., and thank you for your hard work. over the past several years, i've witnessed firsthand the dedication that the members have shown to ensure that the needs of english language learners are met. it is a pleasure to welcome them on board to be members of the district english learners advisory committee. i want to specifically recognize myrna vasquez. as you all heard, she is involved everywhere and part of the pack, part of the delac. she's an elac member. so having her join us is going to help connect the b.c.c. and in spirit, the b.c.c. will live w

this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. today is march 12, 2019. roll call, please. (roll call). >> thank you. tonight i will open this meeting in honour of zora that said those that don't got it can't show it and those that no got i, can't hide it. section a, information for the public and section b, approval of board minutes for february 26, 2019. could i is a motion and second on the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call vote on minutes, please. >> speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session unnecessary. if you wish to address the board of education, members are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to the executive system, miss costco, members of the member have two minutes to address the board and time set by the president. according to the board rules of procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already for the board. so we made announcements about public comment and moved up public comment to start of the meeting for a

i am also a product of the san francisco unified school district. i went to andrew jackson elementary school. i went to cabrillo elementary school. and you wonder why so many elementary schools. we had a retrofit for earthquakes. i graduated from washington high school in the late 80's. i went to roosevelt elementary school, and i'm very thankful i had the opportunity at roosevelt to be in band. it didn't allow me to take the visual arts because that was my elective, but that stayed with me until now. i'm a musician now, but i'm a visual artist because i worked very hard after barely graduating from washington high school, okay? i'm telling you that i know it from the inside out. i worked hard at city college, 13th grade, to get myself into a four-year college, and that's where i realized no, you're an artist, and i graduated from the studio art department, came back, and was given the opportunity by my mean of students. so it takes advocates for the students. that's what i'm being right now. so i want you guys to reconsider this because i'm doing t

she works for the san francisco unified school district and city college for over 35 years, teaching bilingual courses, working to fight for her community, in visitation valley, it is a community on the south side of san francisco that sometimes feels forgotten, feels left out, but marlene doesn't let that happen. she makes sure that everyone who is supervisor, that anyone who is mayor, they are not going to forget about visitation valley and providing this community, and especially seniors -- especially seniors -- with the support that they need to thrive and feel safe in their community. i got to know her over the past years in just watching her run for supervisor in district 10. you didn't win, but you sure did create a lot of heck. and i said, i really was drawn to her because i love the fight in her. he is unapologetic in her commitment to fight for people who oftentimes don't have a voice, especially many of the seniors who in visitation valley, they may not speak english. and she is right there helping with bilingual courses, helping with translation, helping to be the voice to

this year the san francisco unified school district want to remember the resiliency of the victims of the larger sex trafficking in modern history, also known call the comfort women. during world war ccs and world s were trafficked, ti thailand, cambodia were forced japanese military comfort's system into sex slavery. the stark history was hidden over 40 years million these women, the comfort women survivors came out and told the world what had happened. sf unified remembers the courage to break the silence, leading the way for hundreds of thousands of victims for silence violence to do the same in the metoo movement. we dedicate this recognition to the victims and continue to urge sf to comply with resolution number 158-251 passed in 2015, which soughts i states in part t community experts to work this consultation to incorporate an educational commitment of the history for comfort women of world war ii under the japanese military and educate the community about the harmful effects of sex trafficking in the modern-day context of protecting the youth community from trafficking. thank

just like the san francisco unified school district board of education, they have student delegates. the woman's month video was beautiful, but it also made me think about that deputy last week on the news in alameda who was able to talk down the suspect with a knife, who was egging the officer on and who was looking like he could be a huge threat, but i really nend what i saw her do which was basically talk her down. i have to say as women, we are going to sometimes use our smarts. i really liked that, and i hope that can be something more like a model. i did have an unfortunate incident about that a couple of weeks where the officers are knowledge idea about that. i just always want to remind you how up set i am over the racist text messages back from years ago. i don't know if they've ever been addressed, but i just cannot emphasize how unacceptable it was that officers would use that kind of language, that i don't use, don't think about. i don't think it should be used on the city equipment, but i think it should involve termination because i don't think anybody is going to feel

you all and the children and the san francisco unified school district, as i said, you all, we need ms. scott there. without her there, it was chaos. there was another guy in there, they ran him all day and all night. they ran her supervisor all day and all night. it's very critical. they said today the only way they can get these people help that they need is that the parents have to sign for it. other than that, they will just be there terrorizing the school. if you put ms. scott out, you're still going to have the same problem. but with ms. scott there, the terrorizing that has been going on for the last seven days, which i hope to god you've been told, what is truly going on at that school. and i just pray that you all renew -- [bell ringing] -- her contract. >> okay, that concludes public comment. section g, special order of business. there is none tonight. section h, discussion of other educational issues. there are none tonight. section i, consent calendar. items removed. there are none tonight. section j., introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. number one, publi

public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help peop

all my life because for 35 years when i taught at the san francisco unified school district every morningd across my heart and said with liberty and justice for all. these are the things i work for every day even though i retired from thirty seven years teaching evenings and sunday's a city college. 35 years in the daytime teaching newly arrived in may when kids i continue my passion to do whatever it is best for the community for san francisco for the voiceless that's what i do because i am buddhists and i feel that any time we have any energy. we should be able to share that i just want to give you a little bit of background about what happened years ago when my mother and i and my two siblings came to san francisco. she was a new widow and struggling. a lot because obviously she didn't speak the language. in those days. everything was english only so being the oldest of three i had to assist my mother in every way why also going to school to navigate all the services for her. and you know funeral so and so forth from my stepfather i've witnessed a daily frustrations despair but with an

my name is sarah lawrence and i'm a parent of two kids in san francisco unified school district. my oldest son is a freshman at lowell in advanced orchestra, and my youngest son is in 7th grade in middle school in the honor band. they both have participated in the solo and small ensemble festival. that's something that we need to keep, in my opinion. sorry, i have my notes because i'm a little nervous. sorry. okay. the music education that they are receiving at their schools are -- are turning them into the fine young men that they are becoming, and guiding them on career paths that they wouldn't eyes have. i think that vapa is very important, and vapa administration. if that's what the music and art teachers need to help the teachers, you know, get whatever they need going. i don't know anything about budget, but i do know that this program is important to my kids and their friends, so please don't take away the vapa money. please consider it, and happy birthday dr. matthews. [applause] >> hi. i'm michael palladino. i'm the president of the board of the music alliance in the bay

these academic programs are provided at no cost, including transportation, to the san francisco unified school districts, fourth and fifth graders. this year more than 1500 kids will come through stem programs and we'll pass 7,000 in total from all of your districts. each year we have week-long and three-hour programs to 3,700 kids from 37 growght groups around the bay. they are supported through grants by the department of children, youth and their families. and tisc has individual scholarships based on financial need and along with the stem sailing programs annually gives an average of 85 percent of its participants scholarships. and we have numerous funders to pay for all of these and we have become a very important part to our community and its families. but our infrastructure is aging and in anticipation of our new lease we have several challenging years ahead of us. we need as much time as possible to raise the funds that we need to build the best sailing center for our community and to continue to provide these perspective programs for future generations of san franciscoians. i u